Tulsa?!

So I am actually going to do two blogs today, so I hope you read both. Call it making up for all the time that has passed since I last blogged. This first one is going seem very hetero for me because it has to do with college football. The BCS rankings came out, and there are some very strange results going on here. I'm not normally one of the people who hate on the BCS. I really don't think there is a perfect system. I will say that I think Texas, LSU, and Georgia Tech all got seriously shafted, but my bone to pick has to do with number 25. Now you might be asking, who cares who has the last spot. Well I do. Mainly because I am a Texas A&M fan. And this week we finally broke into the rankings for the season as #23 in the AP poll and #25 in the USA Today poll. But this is somewhat negated by the fact that now that BCS rankings are out, those are the ones everyone will pay attention to. It may be important to note that they changed to formula again, and now the AP poll is no longer part of the BCS. So even though A&M is now ranked, most things won't show us as ranked because we did not make the BCS rankings. That in itself would not totally surprise me. This is our first week afterall, and many things go into the formula. What shocked and appalled me, however, was that #25 in the BCS rankings was given to Tulsa. Tulsa! A Conference USA team with an even worse schedule than A&M, and who hasn't been ranked in any poll all season. Not 1! In fact, the AP and USA Today polls always show below the 25 teams ranked a list of teams who received votes, but not enough to make the rankings. Tulsa has never showed up on the USA Today poll runner up list, and only showed up on the AP poll list this week as the last of 11 teams (they received 1 vote). How does a team who has never been anywhere close to being ranked all season end up as the BCS 25? A&M for the record has at least been in the runner up group all season. And even if A&M didn't get #25, there are about 10 teams more deserving of the spot than Tulsa. Something crazy is going on at the BCS. I wonder what would happen if all the major colleges boycotted.